What Doctors Must Learn

Salient Features of the Book

· The book highlights issues that are rarely taught or

emphasised in medical schools but are most important

in medical practice and such issues include

· Doctors must look beyond science - to the art of medical

practice

· History is not his story but much more - a deliberate

inquiry that offers provisional diagnosis in >80% of cases

· Basics of common and not so-rare symptoms are

essential to understand the disease process

· Analysis of clinical cases with MCQs drive the points

home

· Build the power of observation that offers a clue to

diagnosis

· "Testing a test" is necessary to choose the relevant tests

for rational practice